Eksentrik

David Yanez (Gwai Lou)

Filmmaker, Painter, Writer

Malaysia

Gwai Lou (鬼佬) means “Foreign devil”, it is a common Cantonese slang for Westerners. People used to call me this as a joke when I first arrived in Malaysia. Now it is how I call myself.
I am a filmmaker not as a profession but as a way of dealing with my own life. I make films as proof that I have lived. Who I am and the cinema I make are most of the time the same thing.